View the spoiler for my guess at what I think it might be, but please first come to your own conclusion before looking at mine — I don’t want to bias your guess.

My guess

Psilocybe cyanescens


They were found in mid-november in the Salish Coast region of Cascadia. They were growing out of woodchips composed of a mixture of western hemlock (majority), and western red cedar.

Side view of one full mature specimen:

A group with a sample of the substrate (the cap appears to be umbonate):

A closeup side view, and internal view of the stem (it appears to be hollow):

Cross section of the gills — they appear to be adnate, or sub-decurrent:

Underside of view of the gills:

Spore print (first on white background (the split is due to two halves), second on a black background):

Examples specimens once dried:

Examples of the colony, and the location/substrate in which it was growing:


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  • the_artic_one@programming.dev
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    1 month ago

    Sorry to disappoint but looks like hypholoma dispersum to me.

    • there’s no blueing on the stems or margin in any of your photos, the ones you picked should have had stained blue anywhere you touched them
    • The margin isn’t translucent striate

    If the cap cuticle is peelable you could make a case that it’s not Hypholoma but without any blueing it’s gonna be Deconica not Psilocybe.

    • Kalcifer@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      1 month ago

      If the cap cuticle is peelable you could make a case that it’s not Hypholoma but without any blueing it’s gonna be Deconica not Psilocybe.

      For clarity, are you saying that all species in the genus deconica have a peelable cap cuticle?